Private Trauma Informed Yoga to embrace you

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Our emotions often act as a bridge between our bodies and minds, the body holding the score of the ups and downs that life delivers to our door.

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As we endeavour to weave our way through it all, we can experience big trauma or little trauma. Both kinds can have a profound effect on us. Big trauma - events such as serious physical injury, a death, or sexual violence - can cause intense trauma, even if the person never experiences physical harm.

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Examples of little trauma include non-life-threatening injuries, emotional abuse, the death of a pet, bullying or harassment, and the loss of significant relationships. We each have unique capacities to handle stress and this unique level of resilience impacts on our ability to cope with trauma. What one person finds highly distressing may not evoke the same emotional response in someone else. Each of our bodies is unique as we have all experienced such different chapters in our own book of life.  In defining trauma, what is important is how the event affects us rather than what the event is.

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Survivors of trauma, in the broadest sense, share the experience of navigating their lives in the aftermath of these events. Survivors may have a range of body-based issues, ailments and symptoms that intertwine through their entire lives, long after the trauma has occurred. The nervous system response associated with trauma can feel overwhelming, bringing a sense of feeling unsafe.

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Trauma permeates all aspects of of our lives from the physical, psychological, mental, behavioural, social, and the spiritual. Trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness practices offer tools to help heal the whole self, helping survivors to find union between the disconnected aspects of the self.  With these tools we can slowly build the pieces into an integrated whole and begin to find a sense of safety in the body once more.

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Research such as The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Treatment (Rothschild, 2000) recognises a need for a therapy which supports the delve into a deeper understanding of these important bodily sensations that are attached to emotions and trauma.

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Work with me

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​It is my intention that all of my offerings take into consideration that you may have been impacted by the experience of trauma in your life. I teach with an approach that offers compassion and a space for healing from trauma.
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Trauma-informed practice, and yoga in particular, is less about how the shapes we make with our body look and more about the embodiment of these shapes. How that shape feels for you in your body is far more important to me as your teacher. Know that you can change anything to suit your body and how you feel and your choices are always celebrated - that might be changing the shape in some way that feels more comfortable for you in how you are feeling emotionally, physically or energetically. I want you to feel that your practice is just that - yours. I aim to provide you with the invitation to practice in a space where you feel able to choose to explore a connection to your body, with gentle and therapeutic movement, somatic practice and meditation, in an environment that feels safe enough.
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My intention when we practice together is to create a space where you feel free to move in a way that suits your body on all levels, with a deep understanding that how you feel may change throughout the practice and for you to know that you are wholly welcome to change and adapt your practice at any given moment, within an environment that feels comfortable and predictable. My hope is that you will experience a soft landing into a space where you feel fully supported in re-connecting back to your body.
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My hope is that by stepping bravely into this supported space you can find your way back home to the true essence of you. ​​

 

I'm a senior trauma informed yoga teacher, a yoga therapist for PTSD, C-PTSD and anxiety and a somatic coach for women. You can learn what each of these elements looks like, and how each one can support you here. I work collaboratively with all of these elements for the best possible supportive experience for you in your healing and trauma recovery process. ​​

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I offer unique bespoke programmes which focus on building resilience, empowerment and self-acceptance, where you will be provided with noticeable, tangible benefits to help bring you back to a place where the body feels like a safe place to be once more.​

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I am currently offering one to one sessions and small group somatic circles as a guest practitioner on a Friday at Cycles of Change Integrated Medicine Clinic, under Dr Carolyn Eddleston. The clinic is based in Hoton, LE12, between Loughborough and Nottingham. There are options to work on different days and from different venues, so please feel welcome to contact me. 

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To discuss further how I can uniquely support you and meet you exactly where you are at, book a consultation below, or send a message via WhatsApp on 07496 241866

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